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Have you ever heard country singers sing with a Southern lilt/twang, yet when they're speaking they don't at all sound Southern? What's up with that?
And why the hell do country music vocalists even bother to sound Southern-ish at all?
I'm mean, really. There're vast parts of the US that are country (rural) as can be and that aren't in any way Southern. Hell, starting on the West Coast in Oregon/Washington heading east, almost everywhere on goes east of Sierras/Cascades coastal mountains, save for an occasional city here and there, is country/rural until one gets to Chicago.
And why the hell do country music vocalists even bother to sound Southern-ish at all?
I'm mean, really. There're vast parts of the US that are country (rural) as can be and that aren't in any way Southern. Hell, starting on the West Coast in Oregon/Washington heading east, almost everywhere on goes east of Sierras/Cascades coastal mountains, save for an occasional city here and there, is country/rural until one gets to Chicago.
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